Hi, my name is Jill, and live in Southern Ontario, Canada with my husband, Michael, and our two cats. I have loved all kinds of crafts for as long as I can remember, and I discovered card making about four years ago when I was living in Montreal. I quickly became addicted to all the products and techniques, and my collection of supplies has been steadily growing ever since. I am really excited to be guest designing here at Inkspirational - they always have such fun challenges!

Hi! I am from India and moved
to Cleveland, Ohio after marrying my dear husband in 2011. My hobby used to be
sketching prior to paper crafting. It all started with making some new year
cards for family in 2013 which led me to Pinterest, to Paper crafting magazine
and finally to the wonderful world of blogging... I have been hooked ever
since. All the rest of my hobbies have taken a back seat.

My crafting style is CAS and
what makes my cards unique is that I usually try to bring out some meaning into
my designs. My recent craze is Distress inks. Besides, card making I often try
my hands on canvas paintings, pastels and pencil sketches.

In my free time you will find
me watching thriller series/ movies ;) you name it and I must have seen it.
Thank you so much Inkspirational Challenges for having me over :)

We will be choosing a top pick/s from this challenge and inviting one entrant to join us as a Guest Designer.

We're sorry that we may not be able to comment on cards that are uploaded to galleries where we have to register to comment (eg Splitcoast Stampers), or where word verification is enabled. When we can view your card, however, we will still consider it for our top picks.

Kylie was one of the original members of the Inkspirational DT and she is an expert at making watermarks, blog headers etc.

Here's what she says about herself:

For
those of you who don't know me, my name is Kylie and I am a craft and blog
addict.

Now that my confession is out of the way, here is a little about
myself. I started cardmaking and blogging in 2012 and love every minute of it.
Three months after I started blogging (Kylie is Addicted
to Stamps), I decided that I needed to create my own challenge blog so Addicted to Stamps
and More was born. I have met so many wonderful people through that venture
and formed friendships that will last a lifetime.

After making cards for a few
months, I came to the realisation that Clean and Simple is my style. Why not
create another challenge dedicated to CAS? So I did - Addicted to CAS ;) A
few months ago, I felt the need to expand again so I created a craft forum
called Happy Little Stampers -
a place to chat, share and inspire fellow crafters. I love being part of the
craft community.

I have now started up my own little design business creating
watermarks, blog signatures and blog headers. My most recent creations were
revamping the look of the Inkspirational blog. I had so much fun doing this!
Please email on kyliepurtell@gmail.com
if you would like to know a little more about this - you can see my designs HERE
and testimonials from past clients HERE.

The first 5 customers for 2015 will receive a 10% discount of the total
invoice! Happy New Year!

Saturday, 3 January 2015

You may notice that Inkspirational has a great new look for the new year, very kindly designed for us by Kylie Purtell . We will be doing a little feature on Kylie later in the week but meanwhile, if you would like her to design for you, contact her onkyliepurtell@gmail.com.

This week we have the word prompt 'note' that I hope will inkspire you to make a project and link up below.

Hi, I am Marika and I live in Northern
Finland. My first paper crafting project was to make my wedding invitations a
few years ago. Since then I’ve been paper crafting on and off but I was
seriously hooked in last summer when I participated in Online Card Class. I
really enjoy taking part to different kind of challenges since they are a good
source of inspiration and they challenge you to make cards that are not
necessarily in your comfort zone. Recently I have found the world of
watercolours and I am totally and utterly lost in there - and I don’t mind at
all.

We will be choosing a top pick/s from this challenge and inviting one entrant to join us as a Guest Designer.

We're sorry that we may not be able to comment on cards that are uploaded to galleries where we have to register to comment (eg Splitcoast Stampers), or where word verification is enabled. When we can view your card, however, we will still consider it for our top picks.